Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Eight Arrested in California for Defrauding Insurance Carriers
May 26 2006 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division conducted an arrest warrant sweep that resulted in the arrests of eight suspects in Tulare, Fresno and San Luis Obispo counties. The suspects in these cases are...
Arthur J. Gallagher Lacked Authority to Issue Additional Endorsements
May 26 2006 // A California court has found Arthur J. Gallagher had no authority to issue additional insured endorsements in a high-exposure construction defect litigation. The court ruled California law prohibits the issuance of...
California Commissioner Says Insurers Earning “Excess Profits”
May 25 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has released a new report on the profitability of homeowners and private passenger automobile insurance companies. According to the Commissioner’s office, “the...
Californians Urged to Prepare for Potentially Dangerous Fire Season
May 25 2006 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) is urging Californians living in brush and mountainous areas to be prepared for what could be a particularly dangerous fire season later this year. “It is...
N.C. Lawsuits Accuse Calif. Insurance Provider of Fraud
May 24 2006 // Two California-based financial services companies took hundreds of thousands of dollars from senior citizens through deceptive tactics, state Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a lawsuit brought against the companies in...
Wilson Named Executive Director for California Guarantee Association
May 23 2006 // Wayne Wilson has been appointed executive director of the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA). He will succeed Lawrence Mulryan, who announced his retirement after serving as executive director since...
Frazier Elected President of Personal Insurance Federation of California
May 23 2006 // Rex D. Frazier has been elected president Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC). He has served as vice president and general counsel since April, 2005. He replaces former PIFC President Dan Dunmoyer, who left...
What Happens If P/C Industry Catches the Flu; Program Best Practices; Giant Program Guide Highlight IJ Magazine
May 23 2006 // The potential exposures for the property casualty insurance industry have fallen under the radar in the discussions of the effects of an Avian flu or other pandemic. Most people keeping watch on the possible effects have...
California Correctional Officer Submits Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Claims
May 23 2006 // A former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer has been arrested on insurance fraud charges for submitting fraudulent workers’ comp claims, according to Insurance Commissioner...
California Resident Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
May 23 2006 // A Twentynine Palms, Calif., resident has been charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud. Jacob Leatherberry, 32, is charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud related to a 2005 auto accident and was...
New Markets
May 22 2006 // Printers’ Errors & Omissions Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford’s new printers’ errors and omissions coverage form pays the insured’s legal liability for an economic loss resulting from a...
Case Law Watch
May 22 2006 // Additional InsuredsEquilon Enterprises, LLC v. Great American Alliance Insurance Company (Washington Court of Appeals, Apr. 3, 2006) (Unpublished) Ruling: A wholesale distributor of fuel had contracted with a supplier of...
Understanding buyers is key to writing farmowners policies
May 22 2006 // If you’ve been writing agricultural and farm insurance for years and think you know everything there is to know about the business, don’t bet the farm. Farm exposures have changed dramatically in the past 50...
SullivanCurtisMonroe CEO says growth, profit and fun equal success
May 22 2006 // Best Practices is a new Insurance Journal column that profiles how some of the nation’s top performing agencies run their operations. IJ’s Publisher Mark Wells recently interviewed William Curtis, managing...
Blackmail allegations heat up California auto reforms debate
May 22 2006 // John Garamendi has called for an investigation into an apparent campaign attacking him and his proposed auto insurance rate regulations in California. Supposedly waged by insurance industry officials and advocates,...
Feeding the farmowners business
May 22 2006 // If you’ve been writing agricultural and farm insurance for years and think you know everything there is to know about the business, don’t bet the farm. Farm exposures have changed dramatically in the past 50...
Case Law Watch
May 22 2006 // Additional Insureds Equilon Enterprises, LLC v. Great American Alliance Insurance Company (Washington Court of Appeals, Apr. 3, 2006) (Unpublished) Ruling: A wholesale distributor of fuel had contracted with a supplier of...
Fraud Roundup
May 22 2006 // California chiropractor and legal assistant plead no contest to fraud An Encino, Calif., chiropractor Nasrin “Nancy” Hadizadeh Fathi, 43, and legal assistant Behrouz Beck Saffary, 51, have pled no contest and...
SullivanCurtisMonroe CEO says growth, profit and fun equal success
May 22 2006 // Best Practices is a new Insurance Journal column that profiles how some of the nation’s top performing agencies run their operations. IJ’s Publisher Mark Wells recently interviewed William Curtis, managing...
Judge says “take nothing” in Calif. State Fund, Palm Medical case
May 22 2006 // San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell has granted California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and has vacated the March 2, 2006, judgment for...
